class, prototype, meta

28 Feb 1998


      David Farber dfarber@numenor.com wrote:
...
i really like the idea of adding prototypes to squeak, but is there a way to
add prototypes *and* keep classes?
I would say Mario Wolczko already proved this could
be done when he implemented his Smalltalk emulator
in Self. You can read about it if you start from the
Self mirror, choose "this release" and then 
"documentation". The mirror is at:
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/oocsb/self/index.html
Of course, this Smalltalk system is pretty "shallow"
compared to Squeak and isn't as well integrated with
Self as it could be, but it does show that prototypes
and classes can live just fine in the same system.
-- Jecel